Submitted by Avi
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If you take your Internet security seriously, now there’s an app for that.Launching today in Apple’s App Store, Cisco’s SIO To Go is a free iPhone app that allows users to get customized alerts on new and breaking security th (Read More)
Comment - Columnists - Guest Contributors:
I recently received a letter from St Albans City & District Council informing me that my personal data, as well as that of more than 14,000 local residents, had been stolen. I immediately rang the council’s care team and was (Read More)
Submitted by jgmize
from Google Reader:
It is Friday, so I am inclined to take the liberty of posting something outside my usual tag-line areas of interest (see tag-line above). While I was out in San Francisco I met a lot of people interested in applying network (Read More)
Submitted by frinsen
from Google Reader:
Zynga has hit a new milestone on Facebook, and meanwhile, it has just launched a couple ways to increase its presence on the web: A stand-alone site for its hit game FarmVille and a new browser toolbar for Mafia Wars.The San (Read More)
Submitted by logicalextremes
from Google Reader:
There are mistakes and there are mistakes. Some mistakes we learn from. For example: Thinking that selling toys for pets on the Web is a great way to get rich. We're not going to do that again (Read More)
Washington Post:
Unemployment in the District soared to a record high of 11.9 percent in October, according to government data released Friday, ranking it among California, Nevada, Michigan and other states with the highest jobless rates. (Read More)
Ars Technica:
Electronic medical records and the general digitization of medical data and practices are promoted as a way to slow the rapidly inflating costs in the US healthcare system. The push for expanded medical IT h (Read More)
Financial Times:
GM's revelation that it is sitting on a pile of cash and will soon start repaying government loans masks a more sobering message: its financial condition remains fragile and is set to worsen before it improves. (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
The semantic Web has long been heralded as the future of the Web. Proponents have said that Web experiences will some day become more meaningful and relevant based on the AI-esque computational power of natural-language proce (Read More)
Silicon Alley Insider:
Google (GOOG) should deliver a great fourth quarter, as keyword pricing and cost per click are both up, according to analysis from Brian Pitz at UBS, published in a note this week.Pitz says CPCs are up 26% in October compared (Read More)
Washington Post:
A few days ago, Security Fix heard from a reader who received a breach notification so casual in tone that he asked me to verify whether it was for real. Sure enough, Burlington, Mass.-based database application company Alpha (Read More)
TechCrunch:
There are a number of real-time search engines in the space, including Collecta and OneRiot. Today, at the Real-Time CrunchUp, Infoaxe debuts its real time search engine.What makes Infoaxe unique is that it doesn’t tap into s (Read More)
New York Times:
European markets fell and Wall Street was expected to open lower amid concerns about the pace of the U.S. economic recovery following disappointing earnings data from Dell. (Read More)
VentureBeat:
San Francisco startup Cloud Engines, maker of a box-like device called Pogoplug that makes external hard drives accessible from any computer or iPhone, today launched the next generation of the device, supporting more hardwar (Read More)
Gizmodo:
Like the prior generation, the new Pogoplug lets you share any USB drive over the Internet. It'll run for a slightly higher $129, still have no service fees, but it will take up to four USB drives at a time. Aside from automa (Read More)
Boing Boing:
Fred von Lohmann, the chief copyright counsel at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, has been doing an amazing job of analyzing the latest draft of the Google Book Search settlement, really making the legalese clear for the r (Read More)
ReadWriteWeb:
iPhones are becoming a standard in the enterprise. And with the the iPhones, we are seeing a number of applications for a variety of different uses.The latest is an application for security managers made by Cisco. The applica (Read More)
O'Reilly Radar:
Spokeo -- abysmal indictment of society, first prize in mankind's race to the bottom. Uncover personal photos, videos, and secrets ... GUARANTEED! Spokeo deep searches within 48 major social networks to find truly mouth-wat (Read More)